1、【题目】The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.
选项:
A.MarkTwain
B.HenryJames
C.TheodoreDreiser
D.WaltWhitman
答案:
C
解析:
德莱塞是美国自然主义作家的杰出代表,受达尔文进化论中“物竞天择,适者生存”的影响,其作品中体现了弱肉强食的原则,《嘉莉妹妹》就是典型的此类作品。
1、【题目】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).
选项:
A.WilliamFaulkner
B.HenryJames
C.ErnestHemingway
D.F·ScottFitzgerald
答案:
C
解析:
这里的“冰山”指的是海明威的写作风格,海明威自己称其为冰山一角,没有完全展现给读者。
1、【题目】In Death in the Afternoon( )presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.
选项:
A.WilliamFaulkner
B.JackLondon
C.ErnestHemingway
D.MarkTwain
答案:
C
解析:
《死在午后》是海明威的早期作品,在该小说中,作者将生与死通过微小的斗牛事件表现的淋漓尽致。
1、【题目】In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.
选项:
A.RobertFrost
B.TheodoreDreiser
C.WilliamFaulkner
D.Fitzgerald
答案:
C
解析:
福克纳的反种族歧视政治观点在他的作品中得以体现,他也因此被授予了诺贝尔文学奖。
1、【题目】Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.
选项:
A.BoundEastforCardiff
B.TheHairyApe
C.DesireUndertheElms
D.BeyondtheHorizon
答案:
D
解析:
欧内尔,是美国有史以来最伟大的剧作家,一生创作了许多的戏剧,其中,《天边外》为他赢得了普利兹奖。
1、【题目】MarkTwain’sparticularconcernaboutthelocalcharacterofaregioncameaboutas“localcolorism,”auniquevariationofAmericanliterary().
选项:
A.romanticism
B.nationalism
C.modernism
D.realism
答案:
D
解析:
马克吐温作品的选材多是美国西部和密西西比河流域的事情,所以被誉为美国地方色彩主义作家,也是美国现实主义作家的代表人物。
1、【题目】MarkTwainemployedanunpretentiousstyleof()inhisnovelswhichisbestdescribedas“vernacular”.
选项:
A.standardEnglish
B.Afro-AmericanEnglish
C.colloquialism
D.urbanism
答案:
C
解析:
马克 . 吐温的写作特点素有“地方色彩主义”的美称,也就是语言口语化,取材地方化。
1、【题目】Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.
选项:
A.T.S.Eliot
B.JamesJoyce
C.WilliamFaulkner
D.HenryJames
答案:
D
解析:
詹姆斯现实主义文风的特点是注重心理分析和心理描写,所以,他被誉为是20世纪意识流派的先驱,也是心理现实主义的奠基人。
1、【题目】WhichofthefollowingstatementsisNOTtrueofEmilyDickinsonandherpoetry?
选项:
A.Sheremainedunmarriedallherlife
B.Shewrote,1,775poems,andmostofthemwerepublishedduringherlifetime.
C.Herpoemshavenotitles,hencearealwaysquotedbytheirfirstlines.
D.Herlimitedprivateworldhasneverconfinedthelimitlesspowerofhercreativityandimagination.
答案:
B
解析:
艾米莉 . 迪金森属于美国现实主义流派的诗人,她虽然身居深闺, 但一生创作了数千首诗歌,主要涉及两大主题-死亡和爱情。在她抑郁而死后,她的作品才公之于世
1、【题目】Manisa“victimofforcesoverwhichhehasnocontrol.”Thisisanotionheldstronglyby().
选项:
A.RobertFrost
B.TheodoreDreiser
C.HenryJames
D.HamlinGarland
答案:
B
解析:
德莱赛是美国自然主义流派的代表作家,在他看来,人的罪恶是源于无法自控的本能的。